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I still have 28,542 temporary files! After restarting my computer (no programs therefore running) I followed Brink's tutorial and ran Cleanmgr. It told me that I had about 8 GB of files. (I can’t remember whether these included the Wastebasket - it probably did.) I asked it to remove Temporary Internet Files and Temporary Files in my C: drive (an SSD) and my X: drive (an internal rotational drive holding all my Documents, Pictures etc. etc.) I also asked it to “Clean up system files” (by pressing the button). Image 1 shows the resulting cleanmgr window for the C: drive.

Cleanmgr was also asked to remove files from the X: drive and the results are at Image 2.

I used Cleanup several times. I restarted the computer but I still have 28,542 files, 95% whose titles end in TMP (after searching the computer for ”TMP”). Here are some examples.

There are about 40 folders and some are in Image 3. The TCD46A3.TMP contains a Word file in which is the Building Bloc Template image. The second has a file “sist02.xsl; the third “ieee2006officeonline.xsl

Further down the list are files shown in Image 4.

About 95% of the 28,542 files are of type FFS_TMP and are on the X: drive. The earliest Mod. Date of these is 11/06/2002. I have FreeFileSync (a backup program). Surely these don’t belong to it?

Therefore, why are all these files still there and how can I delete them?

Win Disc Clean Up only deletes files when you actually shut down the computer. So reboot your computer after you have run Disc Clean Up. The reason it only deletes files on shut down is because some of the files might actually be in use & deleting those files could cause problems.

As a useful hint you can run Win Disc Clean Up as Administrator & that will remove old Windows Update files & Windows Error Reporting if you tick the boxes for those. To Run as Administrator, right click on Win Disc Clean Up & select Run as Administrator.

Also, your screenshots indicate that you have Windows 10 installation files. Those take up 3GB to 6GB of hard drive space. If you do not plan in installing W10, You can use the Disk Cleanup tool to remove them or use this tool.

If you attempt to have the temp file folder completely clean you will most certainly have problems.

Windows does have files there, that are used for various operations. It also stores some files in there that are necessary for Windows Updates, as I have found out trying to Update Windows Security Essentials, after removing what I thought was an unnecessary file. I had to Uninstall MSE, download & reinstall it to fix the problem.

Some MS Office files are also stored there, which I think are something to do with indexing.

I use Disk Cleanup, Ccleaner, and TFC on my systems for temp files. I don't have problems. Yes a reboot is necessary to make a better clean job.
If their are a few temp files left after doing this just leave them alone. Windows must like them.

I use Disk Cleanup, Ccleaner, and TFC on my systems for temp files. I don't have problems. Yes a reboot is necessary to make a better clean job.
If their are a few temp files left after doing this just leave them alone. Windows must like them.

I used TFC Temp Cleanup. It reduced the number of files from 28,536 to 28,342. The ones deleted seem to be the ones previously in folders (please see my earlier post).

Of the 28,342 TMP files, 99.99% have FFS in their names.

I am sure that nearly all these FFS temporary files have nothing to do with FreeFileSync. Please see the attached Word file which has a selection of clips of the list in W7 produced by searching for FFS. Some seem to be associated with Internet Explorer which I have never installed on this computer (which is 10 months old). One variety has 22,000 similar files!! (Please see the attached Word file.)

You say "If their are a few temp files left after doing this just leave them alone. Windows must like them." But 28,342 are hardly a few!

I am continuing to have glitches every few days. Their nature varies from week to week. For example, Photoshop failed to run until I went back to a Restore Point two days earlier; the computer, once out of about every 4 restarts, takes up to three automatic startups to get the machine running; two Gadgets disappeared twice; about once every 6 times Startup fails and I have to pull the mains plug; until recently the machine failed to waken during a couple of weeks if in sleep for more than two hours and I had to pull the mains plug (I lost work); sometimes for a couple of months, on startup the machine hung at the Gigabyte splash screen but I have been free of this during the last two weeks. Yesterday and so far today I have had no glitches but they will return tomorrow.

I don't think it is at all normal to have 28,342 ffs_tmp files. Something seems wrong, especially because I can't get rid of them and I am having glitches.

Has anyone any comments on this latest post please? (I'm not keen on entering the world of the Command Line. I don't have the technical expertise to cure what might go wrong). I have attached a Word file to this post.

Should I just do a clean install of Windows and re install all my programs and hope? Or buy a new machine? I need a computer that works reliably.

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